To be fair this latest outing from Fred Cavaye is the
standard fodder we have come to expect from this French director/writer
following such movies as Point Blank (2010) and Anything for Her (2008). We either get
stubble laden Vincent Lindon (Bastards 2013, Mademoiselle Chambon 2009) or stubble
laded Gilles Lellouche (Little White Lies 2010, Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec 2010)
in his latest movie Mea Culpa (2014) we get both actors i.e. double the stubble! Then
add a beautiful lead actress Nadine Labaki (Caramel
2007), lots of leather jackets, guns, high speed chases and violence and some
really mean looking East European gangsters who do more killing than talking.
If you have been following Olivier Marchal’s French TV series Braquo you’ll know exactly what I mean!
Fast, gritty, with lots of graphic violence for violence
sake and totally unbelievable were both the good guys and the bad guys are
equally thuggish and prepared to kill their fellow human beings at the drop of
a hat. Lindon plays Simon an ex
policeman following a drunken driving incident where three people including a
young child are killed. Separated from wife Alice (Labaki) and young son Theo
he now works for a security company but is still friends with Franck
(Lellouche) who is still in the force. Bringing the action back up to date the
East European gangsters are driving around Toulon bumping off various low lifes
in their sordid drug-dealing world. While at a bullfight, yes that’s right a
bullfight, with his mum and her man Simon’s son Theo witnesses our Serbian
gangster’s dispensing of a chap in the gents toilet, they see him and give
chase. You’ve probable guest by now that
the rest of the film involves Simon and his ex cop partner trying to stop his
son being killed and you would not be far wrong! A film for lads of both sexes!
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